#ballbounce

Simple ball bounce animation, while I’ve done a million of these by hand I’m pleased with this one because its the first time I’ve gotten something to animate by coding it from “scratch” using Java’s swing library. I was supposed to just be transforming an image with code, but this was more fun.

There’s probably a million better ways to code it than I did, but the results were better than I hoped for. Wherever I click on the JFrame I spawn a ball object with a random radius, a position vector centered at the location I clicked, and a velocity vector with random x and y components.

ball bounce practice

rubber ball and water ball~

Ballbounce Short/Reel

In animation, it’s the most basic of tests, and often one of the first things you ever learn as an animator. But Tomas Jech decided to take the iconic ball bounce to the next level by turning it into a story, in a way. In this short he shows off the various physical properties that different kinds of balls—and things that aren’t exactly balls—exhibit in a “ball bounce.” 

The sound in this short is also of particular note. From the sound effects to the xylophone scales that are the sound of each impact, this short is probably as immersive as a ball bounce test has ever been.